title: Endoscopic orbital decompression for Graves' ophthalmopathy.
abstract: We report a male patient of Graves' Disease with bilateral exophthalmos who had undergone bilateral transnasal endoscopic orbital decompression with subsequent improvement of 3 mm in orbital proptosis bilaterally without any complications. Transnasal endoscopic orbital decompression is recommended as an alternative to traditional decompression techniques especially for purely cosmetic reasons.
authors.affiliation: Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50630 Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prepageran
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shashinder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019299:Decompression, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D004724:Endoscopy; D049970:Graves Ophthalmopathy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit